Oliver Stone

Savages 2012

Oliver Stone returns to fine form with his latest example of pushing violence to excess in cinema with Savages, the film that Natural Born Killers might have been with a little restraint. Stone exhibits more control of a story that could very easily have run away from itself and of the violence depicted in it.
Savages tells the story of three lovers, but it’s not a love triangle. Ben and Chon are very successful marijuana growers in southern California. Ophelia, commonly ...

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

World Trade Center 2006

World Trade Center begins with a sunrise montage of police officers waking and preparing for the forthcoming day, director Oliver Stone alternating between images of early morning routines and the iconic, immense Manhattan edifices (the George Washington Bridge, downtown’s skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty) that surround New Yorkers as they head to work. It’s a warm, quiet sequence that subtly links the metropolis’s imposing structures to its denizens as equal components comprising the very bone and tissue of the city, ...

Snowden

Edward Snowden (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sounds almost bewildered: “Lots of people cruise happily through life. Why can’t I?”. That’s the unspoken question at the heart of Oliver Stone’s biopic of the famed whistle-blower (a.k.a. traitor): What made this man, an NSA contractor with top-level access, decide to throw it all away – the prestige, the work, the big salary – by revealing the global mass surveillance carried out by his bosses? What made Snowden (and specifically Snowden) rise up ...